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MEZUZAH

The side posts of a city gate, door of a building, or a window (Heb. mĕzûzâ). The Israelites were instructed to write God’s commands on their doorposts (Deut. 6:6-9). Eventually the term came to refer to the commandments that were affixed to the doorpost or, in later Jewish tradition, the glass or metal receptacle affixed to the right-hand door post of the outer entrance of a house and containing a parchment upon which certain words from Deut. 6:4-9; 11:13-21 were written. A mezuzah parchment was discovered at Qumran.

Bibliography. L. I. Rabinowitz, “Mezuzah,” EncJud (New York, 1972), 11:1474-77.

Michael A. Grisanti






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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